Mahnmal zum Gedenken an die deportierten und ermordeten Juden / Monument in Memory of the Deported and Murdered Jews

In his Monument in Memory of the Deported and Murdered Jews, the artist draws attention to the people who worked behind the scenes, contributing to the crimes of the Nazi era under the pretext of bureaucratic correctness. The monument is made up of four granite stamps that are engraved with a mirror image of the names of the concentration camps: Litzmannstadt, Riga, Izbica, and Theresienstadt. Jews from the area that is now known as Meersbusch were murdered in these camps.
The ensemble includes a basalt stele with the names of the 33 Jews who were deported and murdered as well as the three survivors. The stele is also engraved with the word zechor / remember. The stamps lie on a surface filled with railway gravel. The material is meant as a reminder of the forced deportations that took place with the help of the Reichsbahn. It also draws associations to a stone cemetery for those who did not receive graves, preserving the memory of the injustices committed.

Further reading:
Margot Klütsch, Meerbuscher Kunstwege, Düsseldorf 2010.